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"It Just Ain't Fair": The Ethics of Health Care for Afric...
... medical ethicists engaged in "impartial" ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health care that divide our society along color lines. This collection challenges that oversight by...
Authors: Dula, Annette;Goering, Sara;
Tags: health;HIV/AIDS;
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‘Management’ policies are hurting the nutrition of homeless youth i...
Canadian policy on homelessness has emphasized "managing" the problem through local emergency services and in some cases through criminalizing homelessness through outlawing sleeping rough, panhandlin...
Authors: Gaetz, Stephen;
Tags: street involved youth; social support systems; ...
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2: Weight-Related Behaviors of Homeless High School Students
We obtained questionnaire data from 3,522 9th through 12th grade students who participated in the 2005 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Students self-reported height and weight. Questions reg...
Authors: Fournier, M.;Austin, B. Samples, C;Corliss, H.;
Tags: behavior;homelessness;youth;hunger;nutrition;he...
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2006 Annual Report on Homeless Deaths
This report summarizes the 2004-06 demographic and cause of death data from the King County Medical Examiner (KCME) on deaths of individuals identified as having been likely homeless at the time of de...
Authors: Health Care for the Homeless Network;
Tags: research and evaluation; demographics; health;
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5: Health Educators’ Perceptions of a Sexual Health Intervention fo...
...nknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of both male and female health educators in response to their intervention work with homeless youth. (abstract from the arti...
Authors: Rew, Lynn;Rochlen, Aaron;Murphey, Christina;
Tags: sexual health;homeless adolescents;treatment;in...
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A Blueprint for Change: Improving the System Response to Youth with...
This brief report describes a comprehensive model proposed for juvenile justice and mental health systems to address mental health disorders among young offenders. The model relies on intervention at ...
Authors: Skowyra, K.; Cocozza, J. J.; Skowyra,Kathleen; ...
Tags: health; justice system; juvenile; juvenile just...
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A Clinic on Wheels. A Paradigm Shift in the Provision of Care and t...
The implementation of nontraditional health care delivery increases the need for information technology innovation, not only in use of computer-based patient records, but also in enabling infrastructu...
Authors: Brocht, David;Abbott, Patricia;Smith, Charles;...
Tags: health;health care systems;outreach;
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